The last twenty.

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music 101 from BYU played the intro

whats the deal with Johnny Cash doing the same thing

I can't help but think this wouldn't work today, to much political backlash, and people would say "it's already been done"

it's great (terrible) how they cheer about woman not appreciating them

Nice album, I'm glad the inmates, who surely understand the blues, were able to enjoy it. I guess we always assume the worst of inmates, and they probably did commit crimes, but I think prison is a strange aspect of humanity

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I've started off with a "rap" album and a blues album - I have no idea what I'm walking into now. How have I never heard of The Stone Roses if they have one of the 500 greatest albums of all time? I guess 500 is a quite a few...

alternative-type rock, nice soundscape starting the album off

I didn't know what year they were, so I looked it up- 1989. I might have guessed earlier 80s, but then as I've grown older I've realized that my perception of the history of rock 'n roll is often distorted

Are they supposed to be some sort of British Pixies?

I feel a little Pink Floyd psychodelic countryside with "Don't Stop," reminds me of a particular Pink Floyd song from one of their earlier albums like Atom Heart Mother, whatever track is before "Fat Old Sun"

It is a very pleasing album thus far - as opposed to the Pixies, which are interesting for being a little harsh. Nothing particular memorable, but I like where it takes me

The bass lines are pretty simple, but I really like the bass sound. Maybe it's my equalizer, but it is simply promininent enough and sounds nice and fat and purposeful

I like the more funky "Fool's Gold"

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I don't think I've listend to any of The White Stripes' albums, though definitely have heard all their singles. I think that seeing Jack White on The Colbert Report turned me off to him a little, also his weird relationship with Meg White, even though I like a lot of his work. Also knowing that he dislikes The Black Keys, and I already had bought some of their albums and just love "Tighten Up." I have heard Jack White's BlunderBuss and The Raconteurs first album, and I liked most of the latter

I'm definitely a hypocrite in that I really don't like country, but I don't mind "Hotel Yorba," and it kind of bothers me that the record is obviously overproduced by Jack White, but so are so many other albums, and I know from footage I've seen that Jack white seems to be a great live performer, so its probably ok

Maybe I have heard all the songs on the album through Pandora, which on my "Aught Alternative" station would from time to time get stuck in a blues rut full of Black Keys, White Stripes, and their derivatives

Its been pointed out before, but Black Keys, White Stripes - colours

The first time I heard "Fell In Love With a Girl" had to have been on Weird Al's polka whatever version

This is a very fun album, It goes from really bluesy to a high energy and it just makes sense

I forgot that Napoleon Dynamite used the song "We're Goint To Be Friends" from the album for the opening credits

unfortunately I'm going to have to split this into two parts for this album. In general I like listening to albums from start to end

Got through Aluminum...

Finished the album with E clapping and dancing

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Another no idea what to expect

I like the bluesy - unfortunately E is trying to get to sleep

rather she is using the music as an excuse to clap and dance, and so I need to finish later

I had to skip to the next one until later since Boz Scaggs isn't on spotify

later

I didn't understand how this album got up here until "Loan Me a Dime" which was really great. There were a few other interesting ones, but nothing else like that

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Apparently some blues, could be considered country, a little honky-ish

I definitely am stretching myself in some ways, but in others I'm just finding the artists that have influenced ones that are already popular

reading Taleb's "Black Swan," particularly about how herding works and the economics of success in entertainment, how it is a "winner take all" of a tournament, and the winner need not be any better, just lucky - from randomness. He argues that randomness is the great equalizer, because everyone is equally likely to benefit from it, but I don't believe he is entirely correct in that. But the point I'm getting at is that this list is interesting because we will have albums that may or may not have been popular at the time, and may or may not be popular now, but for some reason they are on the list. it most likely has to do with someone saying an album influenced them, then everyone who is influenced by that person citing that influence as well, thus 2 or more degrees removed, by the luck of a few people an album gets undue credit for influencing an artist/genre/movement, when there are multiple albums of the same quality or perhaps even moreso, and of which may have been equally or more influential, which now are on this list. Regardless, I don't know the story of Bonnie Raitt. By the third song I wonder if she is a more legit Carly Simon

Definitely has to be categorized as some light blues with the saxophone going off, but maybe that's just what country did in the 70s like what rock did in the 80s

I like the busy ballad of Nothing Seems to Matter

I really liked "Too Long at the Fair," one that a few years ago I probably would have felt a little uncomfortable with

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Going from older to newer albums, the newer always seem to be mixed much louder

Oh yeah, I know this song. I get these guys confused with those other similar bands like Owl City

This is electronic pop I probably wouldn't have put up a few years ago until it started getting on my Aught Alternative Pandora station and the local alternative stations in DC. I still sometimes skip these ones on Pandora

I liked the song before, but then "Electric Feel" comes on and "Oh yeah, I know this song...

in order for an album to be on this album, my thought is it can't just be a collection of 3 great songs (singles) and a bunch of fillers, or even 5, the whole album has to be great. So far the fillers have been interesting

"Kids" - oh yeah, this is that weird song

Thinking of this album I think of the singles, which stand out from the others, but not by much. It could be better and more even, but its not bad. I probably like the non-singles better

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Is Wilco Country? Is it a person or a band? I don't really know, but I can't help but going in with skepticism

I like this first one, interesting sounds in the background, I don't know what its about, but it is very interesting, dreamy

I don't like songs that end with :5x. I'm probably a little OCD, but just under *Y* minutes bugs me, I'd rather have it be Y:0x minutes long

"Kamera" - is it like how Jenna Maroney says Camera? I like it fine, nice pop song, interesting sounds, and the guitars are very clean - I stopped looking up artists on wikipedia, I want to listen to the albums more unbiased, but sometimes context would probably help.

I gave up not looking them up, it is definitely an interest album. It always surprises me when things came out when I was in high school and I ignored them. I was very skeptical of new music in High School, mostly because the radio was full of pop-punk, of which I was, and still am not a fan. I liked 90s pop alternative like Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind, but then felt like I grew up past those and went more into classic rock like Boston and Led Zeppelin (having moved past the middle school crush of The Beatles, of which I still did and do love to listen to from time to time, but now I settled into what the other trombone section listened to). There were a lot of indie bands back then that I now listen to a lot that I just didn't know about, and I could have had a very different musical outlook. I probably would have had/needed a different set of friends though

Jesus, etc. comes on with the violins, and bluesy feel, just very interesting.

I don't think my mom would have liked this album, though she never would have heard the words, so she would have probably been ok with the music. I love the line "playing KISS covers beautiful and stoned"

"Pot kettle black" and that last one were great

I guess I find the acoustic simple guitar with all the weird other sounds just a great feel

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I really have a much better idea of what I'm about to get with The Eurythmics, but I don't think I've heard the full album. Obviously some of the songs are Jack FM type staples

Not my favorite - especially the last few tracks, they were a little tedious. I like the rainy day song though

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Sounds like a straight blues, not bad

This definitely a genre I could/would/should listen more of

I really like the sound of the guitar, even if not everything else

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My favorite way to say ZZ top is like on Flight of the Conchords when they say "Zed Zed Top" - how weird is it that Zed is a name for Z?

I think this is what I've been most excited for out of the first 10 - I like ZZ Top's radio hits, and I hope that the album is a good one - La Grange really is one of their best

1973 is a litter earlier than I thought it'd be for them

I'm a little disappointed with the middle, but it really picks up at the end. I didn't expect it to be like "Legs," but was hoping for more of the "Sunglasses" type songs, of which the last part does more closely resemble

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Will come back, not on Spotify

I remember when I was like 12, KISS came to Albuquerque for a concert, and in the paper they said they were "Knights in Satan's Service," which really freaked me out at the time. Apparently its not even true. Since then I have owned their greatest hits, of which I like some of their lesser known hits best, like "Hard Luck Woman"

Detroit Rock City is a great one, though I never really thought of Detroit as being some great rock town. I guess Alice Cooper and Kiss

a lot of their non-hit songs on the album just sound like derivatives of their hits

Their ballads really are some of their better songs

Shameless pandering to youth in Flaming Youth

Great ending sequence of songs, but you had to get through the middle fluff

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Don't know anything about them, but obviously are some punk band after the first track

I like this band fine, they are a fairly straigh 80s punk band. I can't understand much of the lyrics, but the songs are generally high energy and intersting enough

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I think I know what I'm getting myself into - my question is whether this is a great album, or just the quintessential album of someone who was important in 1983...

oh yeah - another Napoleon Dynamite song! And a Church dance staple

I like this album so far, definitely a type of music I don't really listen to, but if you are going to listen to this 80s pop you might as well listen to quality

Last track was weird, also I really dislike baby talking

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Yeah, that's quite a contrast! 80s pop to real soulful music

title track isn't my favorite, Shining Star is my second favorite EW&F track (after September)

no Oxford Comma (but who gives a F...)

I always liked their faster numbers to their ballads. I guess I don't care much for the funk ballad - but they might be better for seducing? But this slow talking on All About Love is pretty great

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I don't know how I've never really bought or listened to Pearl Jam, when I listen to Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and especially Stone Temple Pilots. I just haven't listened to them much outside of their radio hits

I really like Pearl Jam, especially their guitar work, grunge just happened to be their backstop it seems

I didn't really know many tracks, my guess would be an earlier album, except of course she dreams in color

last track - crazy. I don't think S enjoyed it much - we listened to the album in the car on the way to Disneyland. Otherwise it was great

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Dad always liked the title track, of course he thought it was about him delivering newspapers...

All I really know is there is some Bowie influence

This type of rock with the clean guitar with some chorus I always attribute to more of what I thought was an 80s sound, but it is most definitely a 70s sound - just seems like it wasn't on the radio as much

"Momma's Little Jewel" is more bluesy, I love the guitar sound, piano is great, just really great all around

"Sucker" - little Clashish - like Wrong em Boyo or something

"Jerkin' Crocus" sounds a little dirty, kind of Stones influenced

Ready For Love cover (I think)

Oh yeah, the creepiness in Juno

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No idea who Gang of Four are

initially sounds kind of like 70s/80s punk - somewhat Clash sounding

Not bad, I'd listen to them if in a punk mood

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I don't know if I'm ready for this - start playing and it sounds country

Three things I don't like about country - twangy guitar, twangy accent, twangy lyrical content

seriously, if you have a guitar town, why would it be twangy

this was a bad idea

I didn't realize "Hillbilly Highway" is what took you to Guitar Town

You hear a name like Steve Earle, and you think he might be from New Orleans and he's the Earle of blues or something

I kept wanting to skip, but made it through

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I think its rap - but first track just very cool blues with some brass, a hook of "play on" I think, and some other vocals in the back

Better than the country album by far

Overall I like the funk/soul aspect of it, and I didn't hear all the lyrics